Shopping bags and parcel tape: Rosemary Waugh reviews Rufus Norris’s after-the-war Shakespeare.

Farewell, puritanism: Rosemary Waugh reviews the stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s famous film.

Pilgrimage and existential doubt: Amelia Forsbrook reviews Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia at the Barbican

Mother and lover: Amelia Forsbrook reviews the new stage adaptation of Colin Higgins’ cult classic film

Vanishing acts: Lee Anderson reviews the stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s cult novel

Feeling blue: Rosemary Waugh reviews the premiere of Dennis Kelly’s one-woman play.

Love and land: Rosemary Waugh reviews Peter Gill’s painfully realistic picture of a relationship

Reset and start again: Hailey Bachrach reviews the premiere of Stephanie Jacob’s family comedy

Full of teenage melodrama: Ed Nightingale reviews the shortened version of Alan Ayckbourn’s dystopian epic (and it’s still a disappointment).

Closures, consolidation, and restructuring: Dave Fargnoli reviews a re-fashioning of John Dryden’s Aureng-zebe.

Rosemary Waugh reviews the premiere of Simon Longman’s brutal, bloody and foreboding rural play.

Heart-ache: Miriam Gillinson reviews the West End transfer of Richard Eyre’s production of Eugene O’Neill.

Absurdity in the commonplace: Ka Bradley reviews the Jakop Ahlbom Company, as part of London Mime Festive 2018